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A book, typewriter and journal are pictured among other decorative items in this undated stock photo. (RETROSUPPLY/UNSPLASH)
False balance in science writing can have unintended, deadly consequences. There’s never a bad time to reflect on your reporting practices.
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In this undated stock photo, a person wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves holds up a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine and a syringe. (TOWFIQU BARBHUIYA/UNSPLASH)
As mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics close throughout the Treasure Coast of Florida, homebound residents feel forgotten and mobile medical providers still need shots.
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A “Red Congo” philodendron plant is pictured at McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, Fla., on Friday, April 2, 2021. (LINDSEY LEAKE/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
Lindsey Leake writes a museum exhibit blurb for a “Red Congo” philodendron (Philodendron “Rojo Congo”) she saw at McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, Fla.
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SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is pictured in this March 4, 2020, stock illustration. (CDC/UNSPLASH)
Nearly a month into the COVID-19 pandemic, neither preventative treatment for people exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that triggers the disease, nor therapy for those who go on to contract the disease itself exists.
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A globe is pictured in this undated stock photo. (CHUTTERSNAP/UNSPLASH)
Cold, arid environments, compared to warm, humid climates, negatively influence phonation in human tonal languages by restricting vocal cord movement and control, a PNAS study finds.
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A nosy house gecko is pictured in the kitchen sink of Lindsey Leake’s South Florida apartment, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (LINDSEY LEAKE/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
It was a Friday night the first time Lindsey Leake found a lizard in her apartment. Aug. 9, 2019, to be exact.
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A hurricane is seen from space in this file photo from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (NASA/UNSPLASH)
The 2020 hurricane season will be more active than usual; more named storms will form than in recent decades, and the United States and Caribbean face increased probabilities of major hurricanes making landfall. This is the outlook envisaged by the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University.
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A leatherback sea turtle hatchling is seen in this undated file photo. (MAX GOTTS/UNSPLASH)
FAU’s Jeanette Wyneken used a simple expression to convey the effect of temperature on sea turtle sex: “Hot chicks, cool dudes.” That is, warmer temperatures in underground nests yield more females; cooler nests produce more males.
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A man flips through a magazine at the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 6, 2019. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Federal money makes up a meager portion of public library income in the Magnolia State, but literacy advocates say its erosion puts vulnerable communities in peril.
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The Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Marina District of San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. (J.K. NAKATA/USGS)
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the quake triggered between $6 billion and $10 billion in property damage.
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Funeral director Donita Greene views a decedent ahead of a visitation at Greene Funeral Home in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. This image has been partially blurred to protect the identity of the deceased. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
For centuries, funeral homes have been passed down from father to son. That trend has met its demise.
In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, portrait, youth services librarian Letitia Van Campen poses with a stuffed puppet at George Mason Regional Library in Annandale, Va. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
As the Institute of Museum and Library Services receives another stay of execution, a Virginia librarian illustrates the vital need for federal library funding.
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Jefreena Packianathan, vice president of the Indian American Catholic Association, walks across an aisle of the Upper Church at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Hundreds of Catholics of South Asian descent convened for IACA’s 21st Annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The Indian American Catholic Association hosted the 21st Annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni. Hundreds traveled through a late summer downpour to congregate at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
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Award-winning wines are pictured at Potomac Point Vineyard and Winery in Stafford, Va., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Great grapes don’t just come from Napa Valley. Virginia’s internationally acclaimed wines are driving sales and boosting tourism.
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Bridges to Independence celebrates the inaugural Arlington Bunny Hop 5K Charity Fun Run/Walk at Clarendon United Methodist Church in Arlington, Va., Saturday, April 14, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
From start to finish, organizers agreed the inaugural Arlington Bunny Hop 5K Charity Fun Run/Walk was a success.
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Darin Atwater's Soulful Symphony performs "MLK 50: Requiem for a King" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, April 6, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony took the stage at the National Museum of African Amerian History and Culture to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Decorative items for sale are pictured at the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., Friday, March 23, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The first Sugarloaf Crafts Festival was held 42 years ago, in the spring of 1976 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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John Klapperich, a beekeeper who with his wife Elsa runs The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Va., runs a finger along honeycomb at his Woodbridge, Va., home, Friday, March 2, 2018. (LIINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“There’s a lot of things that bees do that are just kind of miraculous,” said John Klapperich, co-owner of The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Virginia.
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Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Va., taxis a 2005 Cessna Skyhawk 172SP G1000 at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO), Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. De Haan is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman." (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Virginia, is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman."
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Paranormal investigator Lori Miars, co-founder of Northern Virginia Spirits and Paranormal Investigators, reaches out to the dead at Broad Run Cemetery in Ashburn, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. According to a plaque beside the graveyard, 35 family members and friends of John LeFevre, whose family once owned and farmed the land, were buried there between 1750 and 1911. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“Is that you, Mary?” Lori Miars probed, stooping in front of the crooked, weathered tombstone.
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